Wednesday, June 1, 2016

On Oct. 2, 2014, FBI Special Agent Heather Whelan was operating undercover inside a suspected "pill mill," trying to talk Dr. William O'Brien 3rd into writing her a prescription for extra-strength Xanax, known as "blues."

Dr. O'Brien's response, as captured on an undercover surveillance tape, was to proposition the undercover agent, offering "Blues for a blow."

Today in court, Dr. O'Brien, acting as his own lawyer, got to cross-examine Agent Whelan about his proposition that went nowhere.

From the defense table, O'Brien recalled that the FBI agent had offered him an extra $100 for "blues," but that he wrote out the prescription for her anyway, without taking the money.

"I give you the blue Xanax," O'Brien told Whelan. "I still don't get the blow job?"

The doctor asked Agent Whelan if her bosses had instructed her to act seductive on her undercover assignment.

Absolutely not, she said.

The doctor then asked the agent a series of improper questions, all of which were objected to by the prosecutor.

First, the doctor asked a boyfriend, and whether she was still seeing him. Then he asked if somebody else was the father of her love child.

From the stand, the agent with the athletic build looked as if she could be pregnant, an opinion shared by other women in the courtroom.

"That's outrageous," the FBI agent told the doctor.

O'Brien began quizzing Agent Whelan about her Army career. The agent testified she had been in the U.S. Army for 13 years, including a stint in Afghanistan, rising to the rank of major.

O'Brien asked if it was true that after he hit on her, that Agent Whelan came back on her next undercover assignment accompanied by a female friend, because she was afraid of the doctor.

You know how to handle yourself in a fight, don't you, O'Brien asked.

Not when you're outweighed by at least a 100 pounds, the agent said.

The doctor conceded he was much heavier. But still, he persisted, when you were in Afghanistan, you weren't afraid to get into a fight, were you?

"Hand to hand combat," the agent asked.

Yes, the doctor said.

Agent Whelan told the doctor that when she was in Afghanistan, working as an intelligence officer alongside special forces, she didn't receive any training on hand-to-hand combat.

"That's why they give you an M-4," she said.

But she added, while she was in the FBI, she did get training on hand-to-hand combat.

O'Brien asked the agent what was her objective when she went undercover in his office.

"To get a script," she said.

Why did you offer me $100 for blue Xanax, the doctor asked.

"That was just me trying to get more scripts," she said.

The doctor asked the agent if she knew that when he gave his opening statement to the jury, that he apologized for propositioning the agent, saying it was the wrong thing to do as a doctor, and the wrong thing to do as a man.

No, she said. She wasn't in the courtroom when that happened.

"I had no way" of knowing that he apologized, she said.

Next, the doctor reviewed his interaction with the agent while she was posing as a patient. The doctor got the agent to agree that he never touched her. Then he tried to get her to say that he treated her professionally.

For the FBI agent, this was too much.

"You gave me oxycodone for a headache," she said.

The doctor returned to the subject of why the FBI had picked an attractive young female agent to infiltrate his office.

"Were you told be seductive?" he asked.

"I wasn't told anything," she said. "Absolutely not."

Her bosses were only looking for a person who looked young, she said. They could have picked a guy.

As the half-hour cross-examination wore on, the doctor seemed to be rethinking his initial assessment of the agent's overall toughness.

"If you and I got in a fight, you think you'd kick my ass?" the doctor asked.

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comments:

I find it interesting that the prosecutor said "she's an FBI agent" in reference to O'Brien's line of questioning,regarding his sexual request, which obviously happened, no one is disputing the fact he asked for a sexual favor. What is interesting to me is that its really the same mindset, prosecutors, judges, the FBI, no one on the prosecution side could ever err, nor should we ever think to question them or their judgment . Only the general public makes false statements or could be guilty of a crime. The prosecutors, FBI, IRS are all human not divine, regardless of what they think of themselves, or portray to the public.

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